{{Short description|German aerospace engineer (1909-1967)}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Ludwig Roth | image = Ludwig Roth - 1960.jpg | image_size = 250px | caption = Roth in 1960 | birth_date = {{birth date|1909|06|10}}<ref name="astronautix1">{{cite web|url=http://www.astronautix.com/astros/roth.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050416044745/http://astronautix.com/astros/roth.htm |archive-date=April 16, 2005 |title=Roth |publisher=Astronautix.com |access-date=2012-07-31}}</ref> | birth_place = Groß-Gerau, Germany<ref name="astronautix1"/> | death_date = {{death date and age|1967|11|01|1909|06|10}}<ref name="astronautix1"/><ref>{{cite news |title=Obituary|url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,837551,00.html?promoid=googlep |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121022015457/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,837551,00.html?promoid=googlep |archive-date = October 22, 2012 |date = 1967-11-10|access-date = 2008-06-12|publisher = Time Magazine }}<br />'''NOTE''': The '''TIME''' claim that Roth was ''Chief designer of the V-l "buzz bombs"'' is inaccurate.</ref> | death_place = Redondo Beach, United States<ref name="astronautix1"/> | field = Aerospace engineering | alma_mater = | doctoral_advisor = | work_institutions = 1937-1945: HVP/HAP<br />1945-tbd: ABMA<br />tbd-tbd: Douglas | spouse = Brunhilde 'Hilde' | children = 5 sons; Volker, Gerhard, Diether, Axel, Werner | footnotes = }} {{Project Paperclip Team at Fort Bliss|Ludwig Roth is in the first row (appr. center)}} '''Ludwig Roth''' (June 10, 1909 &ndash; November 1, 1967) was a German aerospace engineer who was the head of the Peenemünde Future Projects Office<ref name=Dornberger>

{{cite book |last=Dornberger|first=Walter|author-link=Walter Dornberger|others=translated by James Cleugh and Geoffrey Halliday |title=V-2|url=https://archive.org/details/v20000dorn|url-access=registration|orig-date=1952: V2--Der Schuss ins Weltall |year=1954 |publisher=Viking Press|location=New York|isbn=0-553-12660-1<!-- (1979 Bantam edition)-->|pages=[https://archive.org/details/v20000dorn/page/139 139]}}</ref><ref name=Ordway>

{{cite book |last=Ordway |first= Frederick I III|author2=Sharpe, Mitchell R |title=The Rocket Team|series= Apogee Books Space Series 36|year= 1979|publisher=Thomas Y. Crowell |location=New York|page=38}}</ref> which designed the Wasserfall<ref name=Neufeld>

{{cite book|last=Neufeld|first=Michael J|title=The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era|year=1995|publisher=The Free Press|location=New York|isbn=0-02-922895-6|pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780029228951/page/231 231]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780029228951/page/231}}</ref> and created advanced rockets designs such as the A9/A10 ICBM.

Roth arrived in New York under Operation Paperclip on November 16, 1945, via the SS ''Argentina''<ref> {{cite web|url=http://moore-mccormack.com/SS-Argentina-1938/SS-Argentina-1938-Timeline.htm|title=S.S. Argentina Timeline|work=Moore-McCormack Lines Ocean Liners|access-date=2008-03-02|publisher=Bill Vinson and Ginger Quering Casey}}</ref> and served at Fort Bliss and Huntsville, Alabama. He and his family relocated to Palos Verdes, California. In Los Angeles, California he worked for Northrop Norair Division as Vice-President of Northrop Space Labs and then Douglas Aircraft as Director of SATURN/APOLLO Program Extensions. His son Axel Roth went on to work for NASA as an engineer, and ended his career as Associate Director of Marshall Space Flight Center. His son Volker worked for Boeing as Space Lab Design Manager. His grandson, Karl Roth, currently works at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) supporting International Space Station, Lunar Gateway and Artemis Missions, working Payload Ground System Integration and NASA/MSFC Ground Segment between the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.

==Publications== * {{cite book |first=Ludwig |last=Roth |title=THE ROLE OF THE S-IVB IN THE APOLLO AND POST APOLLO PROGRAMS |publisher=Douglas Aircraft Corp |series=Douglas Paper no. 4396 |year=1967}} * {{cite book |first=Ludwig |last=Roth |author2=Shempp, W. M. |title=S-IVB High Energy Upper Stage and Its Development |publisher=Douglas Aircraft Corp |series=Douglas Paper no. 4040 |year=1967 |url=https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4206/notes.htm }} * {{cite book |first=R.G. |last=Lindberg |author2=Lombar, C.F. |author3=Roth, L. |title=The Influence of Man on the Design of Spacecraft |publisher=NASA |date=March 28, 1962 |url=https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=171446&id=9&qs=No%3D20%26Ne%3D35%26N%3D4294966835%26Ns%3DPublicationYear%257C0 }}

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